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Bill Text

A1371 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1371 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman ELLEN J. PARK

District 37 (Bergen)

Assemblywoman CARMEN THERESA MORALES

District 34 (Essex)

Assemblywoman SHAMA A. HAIDER

District 37 (Bergen)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Swain, Assemblyman Tully, Assemblywoman 
Speight and Assemblyman Sampson

SYNOPSIS

���� Allows parents or legal custodians separated from 
their children because of immigration matters to appoint standby guardians.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning standby guardianship and amending P.L.1995, c.76.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 2 of P.L.1995, 
c.76 (C.3B-12-68) is amended to read as follows:

���� 2.��� The Legislature finds 
and declares that there is an imperative need to create an expeditious manner 
of establishing a guardianship known as a standby guardianship, in order to 
enable a custodial parent or legal custodian suffering from a progressive chronic 
condition, or a fatal illness, or upon an administrative separation 
to make plans for the permanent future care or the interim care of a child 
without terminating parental or legal rights.� The Legislature further finds 
that current law does not adequately address the needs of custodial parents or 
legal custodians who are suffering from a progressive chronic condition, 
or a fatal illness, or who are or will be subject to an administrative 
separation and who desire to make plans for the future care of their 
children without terminating parental or legal rights.

(cf: P.L.1995, c.76, s.2)

���� 2.��� Section 3 of P.L.1995, 
c.76 (C.3B:12-69) is amended to read as follows:

���� 3.��� As used in P.L.1995, 
c.76 (C.3B:12-67 et seq.):

���� "Administrative 
separation" means the separation of a parent or legal custodian from the 
parent�s or legal custodian�s child as a result of a federal immigration 
matter, including, but not limited to, arrest, detention, incarceration, or 
removal, or the receipt of official communication by federal, State, or local 
authorities responsible for immigration enforcement that gives reasonable 
notice that the care and supervision of the parent�s or legal custodian�s child 
will be interrupted or cannot be provided as the result of the parent�s or 
legal custodian�s impending arrest, detention, incarceration, or removal.

���� "Appointed standby 
guardian" means a person appointed pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1995, c.76 
(C.3B:12-72) to assume the duties of guardian over the person and, when 
applicable, the property of a minor child upon the death or a determination of 
incapacity [or],debilitation, 
administrative separation, and with the consent, of the parent or legal 
custodian. 

���� "Attending 
physician" means the physician who has primary responsibility for the 
treatment and care for the petitioning parent or legal custodian. When more 
than one physician shares this responsibility, or when a physician is acting on 
the primary physician's behalf, any such physician may act as the attending 
physician pursuant to this act.� When no physician has this responsibility, a 
physician who is familiar with the petitioner's medical condition may act as 
the attending physician pursuant to P.L.1995, c.76 (C.3B:12-67 et seq.).

���� "Consent" means 
written consent signed by the parent or legal custodian in the presence of two 
witnesses who shall also sign the document.� The written consent shall 
constitute the terms for the commencement of the duties of the standby guardian. 

���� "Debilitation" means 
a chronic and substantial inability, as a result of a physically debilitating 
illness, disease, or injury, to care for one's minor child. 

���� "Designated standby 
guardian" means a person designated pursuant to section 8 of P.L.1995, 
c.76 (C.3B:12-74) to assume temporarily the duties of guardianship over the 
person and, when applicable, the property of a minor child upon the death or a 
determination of incapacity [or], debilitation, 
or administrative separation, and with the consent, of the parent or 
legal custodian. 

���� "Designation" means 
a written document voluntarily executed by the designator pursuant to P.L.1995, 
c.76. 

���� "Designator" means a 
competent parent or legal custodian of a minor child who makes a designation 
pursuant to P.L.1995, c.76. 

���� "Determination of 
administrative separation" means a written determination by federal, State, 
or local authorities responsible for immigration enforcement regarding the 
nature, cause, and extent of a parent�s or legal guardian�s arrest, detention, 
incarceration, or removal

���� "Determination of 
debilitation" means a written determination made by the attending 
physician which contains the physician's opinion to a reasonable degree of 
medical certainty